Plesk Name Server failing repeatedly

[emagen]

Hi

I have been fighting my Plesk server all day as it goes down again and again. Messages on the System Event Viewer show the following right BEFORE the server dies:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: Service Control Manager
Event Category: None
Event ID: 7034
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 08:43:11 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
The Plesk Name Server service terminated unexpectedly. It has done this 9 time(s).

The Plesk services monitor show Plesk Name Server off and I can't start it nor from the services monitor or from Plesk's admin panel.

Any advise will be greatly appreciated

 

[emagen]

Some more information from Application Event Viewer:

Event Type: Error
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:02:15 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\dns\\etc\named.conf:141: '{' expected near '"'

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:02:15 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
loading configuration: unexpected token

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Event Type: Error
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:02:15 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
exiting (due to fatal error)

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Event Type: Information
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:04:02 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
starting BIND 9.2.4 command line: -n1

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Event Type: Information
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 3
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:04:02 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
loading configuration from 'C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\dns\\etc\named.conf'

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and there it goes all over again until the server dies......

Event Type: Error
Event Source: named
Event Category: None
Event ID: 1
Date: 13/07/2005
Time: 09:04:02 p.m.
User: N/A
Computer: DED725-WIN
Description:
C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\dns\\etc\named.conf:141: '{' expected near '"'

 

[Ryan11433]

maybe you should use mircosoft dns

 

[emagen]

I should mention that I manage domain's DNS on separate server, I really don't use BIND on my Plesk Server.

 

[dynaweb]

My server is brand new and already the plesk dns is failing and will not come back up. This started when I added a domain alias to a domain just ti test out the feature. Apparently that will break the Plesk DNS

How can I fix this HUGE problem?

 

[dynaweb]

Well, I found that the event viewer was showing the the domain entry from the domain alias was duplicating itself in the DNS file and throwing an "already added" error. So instead of dealing with it, the Plesk DNS server just gives up and fails to start up. Manually going in to the file C:\Program Files\SWsoft\Plesk\dns\etc\named.conf and deleting that entire entry as well as the entry in the Plesk interface seems to have repaired this issue.

Sheesh.